No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
He who hesitates is poor.